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Post by hawkmoth on Nov 27, 2011 11:08:57 GMT
Bring it on Martin,some early Tull stuff cant be a bad thing.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 27, 2011 11:12:05 GMT
wonder if it's a one off or maybe see how it goes?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 2, 2012 11:55:27 GMT
Don't know if this interesting interview has already been put up? Who's the fiddle player in the second pic?? Interview on 26th December - Classic Rock Musicclassicrockmusicblog.com/music-interviews/martin-barre-interview/What do you have planned for 2012? "My next thing to do in the studio – I’ve been working on it on and off for far too long – is an album of quiet Tull songs, things like “Requiem,” “From A Deadbeat To An Old Greaser,” “Moths” – some oddball, little-known Tull tracks that I’ll be doing acoustically. Then I’m going to mix in some bits of my own music with it. So I might play “Requiem” as an acoustic piece of music, maybe with bouzoukis and mandolins and so on; then I’d add a section of music that would segue between that and the next piece. That’s the plan." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In another interview he hints that the singer will not sound like Ian............ "Although he is tapping some past Tull members for the band, he said that such an association is not a requirement. Indeed, he plans to include a vocalist that doesn’t have the same styling as Tull’s frontman and founder Ian Anderson. "You can’t imitate Ian’s vocals,” said Barre, who also plays flute and will presumably fill in on some of the parts Anderson would normally play on various songs. “I want something that’s really very different. Still, Barre promises that the vocals will work well with the instrumentation and satisfy the band’s ardent fan base" ultimateclassicrock.com/jethro-tulls-martin-barre-to-tour-with-lost-songs/
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 2, 2012 13:58:34 GMT
Looks like Chris Leslie of Fairport.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 2, 2012 15:37:16 GMT
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Post by onewhiteduck on Mar 6, 2012 13:45:47 GMT
Martin has added a few more dates ( I wonder if he'll come to the Royal Oak in Ystrad Mynach) Doane not playing.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 6, 2012 19:08:50 GMT
Martin has added a few more dates ( I wonder if he'll come to the Royal Oak in Ystrad Mynach) Doane not playing. He said he'll come if you buy him the couple or ten drinks you owe him.
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Post by bunkerfan on Mar 6, 2012 20:04:06 GMT
Still not much news from Martins website. To be confirmed - tours of Germany, Italy in July and possible dates in the UK for November.
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Post by snaffler on Apr 19, 2012 19:59:52 GMT
looking forward to reading in this forum about MBs shows!!!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 19, 2012 20:04:51 GMT
looking forward to reading in this forum about MBs shows!!!! ;D ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 21, 2012 9:08:21 GMT
Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre takes high road on TAAB2 rift20 June 2012 By Mike Greenblatt www.goldminemag.comJethro Tull has been sliced in half, and it’s still bleeding. One half has Ian Anderson resuscitating “Thick As A Brick,” and the other half has Martin Barre touring Europe with The Legends of Rock and his own Martin Barre’s New Day. Wait a minute! “Thick As A Brick 2” without Martin Barre and drummer Doane Perry? Are you kidding? Anderson has gone on record as saying scheduling snafus between “TAAB2” and Barre’s two projects prevented the two Tull giants from performing together this time around. Let’s see what Martin says, shall we? Hint: It ain’t pretty Goldmine: Tell us about The Legends Of Rock. What a lineup! Mick Fleetwood and Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac), John Helliwell, Jesse Seibenberg and Bob Seibenberg (Supertramp), John Wetton (Asia), Jon Anderson (Yes), Les Holroyd (Barclay James Harvest) and you. I wish you’d come stateside. Martin Barre: It might happen. They’re talking about Canada in January, but it all depends how the June and October tours go. It all sort of snowballs, but I’m hoping it will carry on. It’s not in my control. And if we do Canada, I don’t see any reason why at some point we wouldn’t come down to the States. Yeah, it’s nice! It’s not my main project, though. But it’s good for me. It’s given me something else to focus on this year, which I really need. GM: And the material thereof? Is it Tull, Yes, Supertramp, Asia and Fleetwood Mac? MB: All of the above. Five tracks from each band. There’s a 10-piece backing band. When I first got the set list, I looked at the tracks and thought, “Oh no! I’ve got all this stuff to learn!” But, apparently, I’m only playing the Tull stuff, so it’s a pretty easy gig for me. It’s going to be really good. What I think I’m going to do is call John Wetton. He’s a very good friend of mine. I want to pick one of the Asia tracks to play on. I want to also play on the one Fleetwood Mac track they’re doing by Peter Green. I’d love to do that. GM: Is Jon Anderson of Yes going to sing Jethro Tull? MB: No, I actually don’t know who’s singing the Tull. I assume it will be one of the vocalists of the big backing band. One of them, I think, is Bruce Guthrie, and he’s very, very good. But that would be something [laughs]. Maybe Jon’s thinking, “Wow, it’s been my lifetime ambition to sing ‘Aqualung.’ There’s also another element: a band called Excalibur. It’s the guy who put this all together. There will be five or more Excalibur tracks, as well. Jon and I will be together on one of those. It’s all a bit of mix and match. GM: But your main project is Martin Barre’s New Day. MB: It certainly is. And what a band! Frank Mead played sax with Bill Wyman. Drummer Geoff Dunn’s from Procol Harum. I’ve got Jethro Tull’s bassist Jonathan Noyce. Pat O’May is a very good French guitar player who I worked with last year. Vocalist John Mitchell is from an English band called It Bites. GM: And it’s all Tull material? MB: Yeah, with some of my instrumentals and a couple of Pat’s songs. Frank is also an amazing blues harpist, so he does a couple of blues things. I think it’ll be about 80 percent Tull. I have to see how rehearsals go. I want it to be a sort of rock-blues show. There’ll be nothing lightweight. The Tull stuff, other than the favorites, will be stuff Tull hasn’t played for 20, 30 years, so it will be pretty fresh. We’ll do the tracks that I’ve wanted to do for a long time: “A New Day Yesterday” [“Stand Up,” 1969], “Teacher” and “To Cry You A Song” [“Benefit,” 1970], a chunk of music from “Thick As A Brick” [1972], something from “A Passion Play” [1973], “Minstrel In The Gallery” [1975], “Home” [“Stormwatch,” 1979] and “Later That Same Evening” [“Under Wraps,” 1984]. GM: Are you going to play some flute? MB: A bit. Frank also plays flute, and he’s a very good Irish folk flute player. Nobody will be playing in Ian’s style. I don’t think that would be the way to go. The material I’m doing doesn’t have that much flute in it, anyway. In the early songs, it was pretty minimal. It was only the later albums that had a lot of flute. I think it could work out really well. GM: Is it going to feel funny to turn to your left onstage and not see Ian? MB: No, it’s not. GM: You’ve played with him for so long. What has it been? About 150 years, right? MB: Yeah. About that long. GM: Give or take a few decades. Hey, I gotta tell ya, I’ve been a longtime fan of Jethro Tull, and you, specifically. I’ve always thought you’ve been one of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists in rock music. I put you on a pedestal. I’ve been in your audiences, thrilling to your guitar solos for decades. I must say, the Tull fans who I know are up in arms over the fact that you and [drummer] Doane [Perry] aren’t on this Ian Anderson “Thick As A Brick 2” project. So let me ask you point-blank: What the f**k, man? MB: Yeah, well, it’s not something I really want to talk about. I think the fact of the matter is, I know nothing about it. When Ian announced on the American tour last year that he didn’t want to do any more Jethro Tull shows, Doane and I had no idea that he was planning to do “Thick As A Brick 2.” This was all stuff he had planned before he had told us anything. He told us nothing, yet, obviously, he had thought this through for a long time. It is what it is. Everybody has to draw their own conclusions. My focus now is to carry on the name and the music of Jethro Tull in the tradition that I love and was mostly involved with: the earlier days. I’ve got nothing more to say about it. I could say this, that or the other, but what will happen will happen, and it’s fine. Everybody has a right to do what they want to do in life. It’s very easy for others to be critical of decisions and directions musicians want to go in. It’s not for me to say. I’m more interested in me and going in the direction that I want to go. And it’s opened up a huge area for me. And vocally, Ian can’t really go there anymore. He’s looking at more flute playing. Actually, I don’t know what he’s looking at, but it’s not the heavy Jethro Tull that I want to represent. That’s all my territory. And I shall embrace it with open arms. GM: To be perfectly frank, I found it painful to be in his audience with him trying to approximate his once-great vocals. MB: It’s a terrible thing. I don’t want to talk about that. I listen to the early Tull tracks, and Ian’s performance is just stunning. It really is. He had such a great voice. That’s not a nice thing to happen. It’s something he has to deal with, and, luckily, something I don’t have to deal with, because I wouldn’t know what to do. It’s a tragedy. GM: Tony Bennett sings better at 85 than he did at 45. He’s a freak of nature. MB: Some guys do. They have better training or look after their voice more. Same as me looking after my hands. I have to exercise and take cod liver oil and all these sorts of pills that are supposed to keep arthritis away. Hopefully, it will. Being a musician is a long-term investment, be it a vocalist or instrumentalist. You have to look after your body and your mind. GM: Well, it’s just unconscionable for Ian to not inform you of this. I’m outraged. Tull fans are outraged. He reportedly said it was a scheduling conflict. MB: That’s not true. Sometimes it’s convenient and more pleasant to perceive a different reality than the one that really exists. I’m very positive about everything right now. I’m happier with the people I’m working with. I don’t have a problem with what’s happening. It will all level out. People will like what they like. The difficult corner, though, [with Ian’s project] is that everybody needs to know exactly what’s happening. There’s an element of being misled by not saying anything. The fact that it’s advertised the way it is in some countries certainly doesn’t suggest anything. It also doesn’t explain that Doane and I are not part of it, so the presumption could be that we are there. That bothers me. It’s on my website. It’s a big mistake. If he’s made one mistake, it’s that he hasn’t made it absolutely clear who is in the band, because people don’t go to see Ian. They go to see Ian and the band. And I think it’s quite important to know who’s in the band! It’s a shame. It’ll reflect badly on them. GM: I knew you would bounce back, but I feel bad for Doane. Why wouldn’t he want Doane? Has Doane spoken to you about it? MB: We speak. I’m a third of the way through a book. It won’t be this year because I’ve been recording and trying to get all these gigs together but, one day, all those questions will be answered. There are reasons. To be honest, there’s reasons for everything. And I’m fairly sure I know what they are. Nothing is being said. Ian just got Doane and I in a room and said he didn’t want to play in Jethro Tull anymore. But that doesn’t make any sense at all. So you have to sort of look beyond it. GM: So what did Doane say? MB: I think you’d have to talk to him. Doane’s a very soft, mellow person. He knows what’s going on. He has other work. Doane has health problems with his shoulder. He’s recording with other artists in Los Angeles. Doane will always work, because he’s such an amazing drummer and has a great network of friends. And he’ll work with me at some point. I’ve also spoken to other guys, like Barrie Barlow, on the possibility of putting together a Jethro Tull band for America, which would have some interesting people in it, like maybe Clive Bunker. I quite fancy the idea of having the lineup of Jethro Tull from a long time ago performing again. It would be hard to get some guys, I know. John Evan lives in Australia. It wouldn’t be an easy task, but it would be good fun trying. It’s a big responsibility, and I would want to get it right. I wouldn’t want to come across with a band that was anything less than 100 percent of what the fans would want and what I would want. I feel in the latter years of Tull, we were so sidetracked by doing such big shows that the production was nonexistent. We kept doing the same show! You can’t do that. I want to get back to doing something really fresh. I’ve always felt reinvesting in a project is the best thing you can do, whereas Jethro Tull has done the opposite. Nothing was put back in. It’s been all take and no give. The shows were bland. Nothing changed. When you get a bit of success, you should take some of that and put it back into the show to make it a better show, rather than just take the money. GM: After Ian got you and Doane in that room, is that when you decided you had to look after yourself, so you made your “Legends Of Rock” and Martin Barre’s New Day plans? MB: Oh yeah. I mean, the minute he said it, I knew I had to do it. And I wanted to do it. I’ve done solo things before, but this is full on. I didn’t find the facts of what I had to do a problem. I just found the way it happened a problem. People are such strange creatures.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 21, 2012 11:07:46 GMT
That's a fascinating interview that certainly puts a few theory's and arguments to bed while making way for a few more. I don't think we've heard the last of Jethro Tull being "sliced in half" somehow.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 21, 2012 15:51:00 GMT
Intense, gossipy stuff....first mention of 'I don't wanna be in Tull' from Ian. A Martin tell-all book ?
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Post by snaffler on Jun 21, 2012 22:06:56 GMT
ooooooo, the handbags are really out now!!!!!
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Post by tullist on Jun 21, 2012 22:48:59 GMT
Can't say I am not disapointed to read this, first I have seen of this or the New Day interview. I think the reason's involved could be Ian's difficulty with age of performing in a more rock and roll context which, for all their disparate skills, Martin and Doane may be more representative of, coupled with what I presume may be a higher cost for their services, only guessing, pissing in the wind. Martin himself references Ian's inability vocally. The thing is with his voice is, I don't believe its thoroughly used up, but it can no longer speak effectively to the bulk of Tull's classic material, though on other things it still sounds quite good. Even some of the softer things in Tull's catalogue which he could still manage in the latter 80's and 90's sometimes seem strained, oddly I believe he still manages Loco, Aqua and My God very well. And even hearing him strain on the current TAAB1 material, not altogether certain I exactly like Ryan's voice better necessarily, as it is difficulty to impart the diction, enunciation and passion that IA can stick in there. But, if I had to bet whether Doane, IA and Martin would reconvene I would say yes, but with less certainty than prior to reading that.
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Post by snaffler on Jun 22, 2012 8:55:45 GMT
Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre takes high road on TAAB2 rift20 June 2012 By Mike Greenblatt www.goldminemag.comJethro Tull has been sliced in half, and it’s still bleeding. One half has Ian Anderson resuscitating “Thick As A Brick,” and the other half has Martin Barre touring Europe with The Legends of Rock and his own Martin Barre’s New Day. Wait a minute! “Thick As A Brick 2” without Martin Barre and drummer Doane Perry? Are you kidding? Anderson has gone on record as saying scheduling snafus between “TAAB2” and Barre’s two projects prevented the two Tull giants from performing together this time around. Let’s see what Martin says, shall we? Hint: It ain’t pretty Goldmine: Tell us about The Legends Of Rock. What a lineup! Mick Fleetwood and Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac), John Helliwell, Jesse Seibenberg and Bob Seibenberg (Supertramp), John Wetton (Asia), Jon Anderson (Yes), Les Holroyd (Barclay James Harvest) and you. I wish you’d come stateside. Martin Barre: It might happen. They’re talking about Canada in January, but it all depends how the June and October tours go. It all sort of snowballs, but I’m hoping it will carry on. It’s not in my control. And if we do Canada, I don’t see any reason why at some point we wouldn’t come down to the States. Yeah, it’s nice! It’s not my main project, though. But it’s good for me. It’s given me something else to focus on this year, which I really need. GM: And the material thereof? Is it Tull, Yes, Supertramp, Asia and Fleetwood Mac? MB: All of the above. Five tracks from each band. There’s a 10-piece backing band. When I first got the set list, I looked at the tracks and thought, “Oh no! I’ve got all this stuff to learn!” But, apparently, I’m only playing the Tull stuff, so it’s a pretty easy gig for me. It’s going to be really good. What I think I’m going to do is call John Wetton. He’s a very good friend of mine. I want to pick one of the Asia tracks to play on. I want to also play on the one Fleetwood Mac track they’re doing by Peter Green. I’d love to do that. GM: Is Jon Anderson of Yes going to sing Jethro Tull? MB: No, I actually don’t know who’s singing the Tull. I assume it will be one of the vocalists of the big backing band. One of them, I think, is Bruce Guthrie, and he’s very, very good. But that would be something [laughs]. Maybe Jon’s thinking, “Wow, it’s been my lifetime ambition to sing ‘Aqualung.’ There’s also another element: a band called Excalibur. It’s the guy who put this all together. There will be five or more Excalibur tracks, as well. Jon and I will be together on one of those. It’s all a bit of mix and match. GM: But your main project is Martin Barre’s New Day. MB: It certainly is. And what a band! Frank Mead played sax with Bill Wyman. Drummer Geoff Dunn’s from Procol Harum. I’ve got Jethro Tull’s bassist Jonathan Noyce. Pat O’May is a very good French guitar player who I worked with last year. Vocalist John Mitchell is from an English band called It Bites. GM: And it’s all Tull material? MB: Yeah, with some of my instrumentals and a couple of Pat’s songs. Frank is also an amazing blues harpist, so he does a couple of blues things. I think it’ll be about 80 percent Tull. I have to see how rehearsals go. I want it to be a sort of rock-blues show. There’ll be nothing lightweight. The Tull stuff, other than the favorites, will be stuff Tull hasn’t played for 20, 30 years, so it will be pretty fresh. We’ll do the tracks that I’ve wanted to do for a long time: “A New Day Yesterday” [“Stand Up,” 1969], “Teacher” and “To Cry You A Song” [“Benefit,” 1970], a chunk of music from “Thick As A Brick” [1972], something from “A Passion Play” [1973], “Minstrel In The Gallery” [1975], “Home” [“Stormwatch,” 1979] and “Later That Same Evening” [“Under Wraps,” 1984]. GM: Are you going to play some flute? MB: A bit. Frank also plays flute, and he’s a very good Irish folk flute player. Nobody will be playing in Ian’s style. I don’t think that would be the way to go. The material I’m doing doesn’t have that much flute in it, anyway. In the early songs, it was pretty minimal. It was only the later albums that had a lot of flute. I think it could work out really well. GM: Is it going to feel funny to turn to your left onstage and not see Ian? MB: No, it’s not. GM: You’ve played with him for so long. What has it been? About 150 years, right? MB: Yeah. About that long. GM: Give or take a few decades. Hey, I gotta tell ya, I’ve been a longtime fan of Jethro Tull, and you, specifically. I’ve always thought you’ve been one of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists in rock music. I put you on a pedestal. I’ve been in your audiences, thrilling to your guitar solos for decades. I must say, the Tull fans who I know are up in arms over the fact that you and [drummer] Doane [Perry] aren’t on this Ian Anderson “Thick As A Brick 2” project. So let me ask you point-blank: What the f**k, man? MB: Yeah, well, it’s not something I really want to talk about. I think the fact of the matter is, I know nothing about it. When Ian announced on the American tour last year that he didn’t want to do any more Jethro Tull shows, Doane and I had no idea that he was planning to do “Thick As A Brick 2.” This was all stuff he had planned before he had told us anything. He told us nothing, yet, obviously, he had thought this through for a long time. It is what it is. Everybody has to draw their own conclusions. My focus now is to carry on the name and the music of Jethro Tull in the tradition that I love and was mostly involved with: the earlier days. I’ve got nothing more to say about it. I could say this, that or the other, but what will happen will happen, and it’s fine. Everybody has a right to do what they want to do in life. It’s very easy for others to be critical of decisions and directions musicians want to go in. It’s not for me to say. I’m more interested in me and going in the direction that I want to go. And it’s opened up a huge area for me. And vocally, Ian can’t really go there anymore. He’s looking at more flute playing. Actually, I don’t know what he’s looking at, but it’s not the heavy Jethro Tull that I want to represent. That’s all my territory. And I shall embrace it with open arms. GM: To be perfectly frank, I found it painful to be in his audience with him trying to approximate his once-great vocals. MB: It’s a terrible thing. I don’t want to talk about that. I listen to the early Tull tracks, and Ian’s performance is just stunning. It really is. He had such a great voice. That’s not a nice thing to happen. It’s something he has to deal with, and, luckily, something I don’t have to deal with, because I wouldn’t know what to do. It’s a tragedy. GM: Tony Bennett sings better at 85 than he did at 45. He’s a freak of nature. MB: Some guys do. They have better training or look after their voice more. Same as me looking after my hands. I have to exercise and take cod liver oil and all these sorts of pills that are supposed to keep arthritis away. Hopefully, it will. Being a musician is a long-term investment, be it a vocalist or instrumentalist. You have to look after your body and your mind. GM: Well, it’s just unconscionable for Ian to not inform you of this. I’m outraged. Tull fans are outraged. He reportedly said it was a scheduling conflict. MB: That’s not true. Sometimes it’s convenient and more pleasant to perceive a different reality than the one that really exists. I’m very positive about everything right now. I’m happier with the people I’m working with. I don’t have a problem with what’s happening. It will all level out. People will like what they like. The difficult corner, though, [with Ian’s project] is that everybody needs to know exactly what’s happening. There’s an element of being misled by not saying anything. The fact that it’s advertised the way it is in some countries certainly doesn’t suggest anything. It also doesn’t explain that Doane and I are not part of it, so the presumption could be that we are there. That bothers me. It’s on my website. It’s a big mistake. If he’s made one mistake, it’s that he hasn’t made it absolutely clear who is in the band, because people don’t go to see Ian. They go to see Ian and the band. And I think it’s quite important to know who’s in the band! It’s a shame. It’ll reflect badly on them. GM: I knew you would bounce back, but I feel bad for Doane. Why wouldn’t he want Doane? Has Doane spoken to you about it? MB: We speak. I’m a third of the way through a book. It won’t be this year because I’ve been recording and trying to get all these gigs together but, one day, all those questions will be answered. There are reasons. To be honest, there’s reasons for everything. And I’m fairly sure I know what they are. Nothing is being said. Ian just got Doane and I in a room and said he didn’t want to play in Jethro Tull anymore. But that doesn’t make any sense at all. So you have to sort of look beyond it. GM: So what did Doane say? MB: I think you’d have to talk to him. Doane’s a very soft, mellow person. He knows what’s going on. He has other work. Doane has health problems with his shoulder. He’s recording with other artists in Los Angeles. Doane will always work, because he’s such an amazing drummer and has a great network of friends. And he’ll work with me at some point. I’ve also spoken to other guys, like Barrie Barlow, on the possibility of putting together a Jethro Tull band for America, which would have some interesting people in it, like maybe Clive Bunker. I quite fancy the idea of having the lineup of Jethro Tull from a long time ago performing again. It would be hard to get some guys, I know. John Evan lives in Australia. It wouldn’t be an easy task, but it would be good fun trying. It’s a big responsibility, and I would want to get it right. I wouldn’t want to come across with a band that was anything less than 100 percent of what the fans would want and what I would want. I feel in the latter years of Tull, we were so sidetracked by doing such big shows that the production was nonexistent. We kept doing the same show! You can’t do that. I want to get back to doing something really fresh. I’ve always felt reinvesting in a project is the best thing you can do, whereas Jethro Tull has done the opposite. Nothing was put back in. It’s been all take and no give. The shows were bland. Nothing changed. When you get a bit of success, you should take some of that and put it back into the show to make it a better show, rather than just take the money. GM: After Ian got you and Doane in that room, is that when you decided you had to look after yourself, so you made your “Legends Of Rock” and Martin Barre’s New Day plans? MB: Oh yeah. I mean, the minute he said it, I knew I had to do it. And I wanted to do it. I’ve done solo things before, but this is full on. I didn’t find the facts of what I had to do a problem. I just found the way it happened a problem. People are such strange creatures. on second reading this is more damning than i first thought! its pretty clear what martin really thinks...he was misled and feels terribly slighted. no doubt the apologists will make a case for IA. i'll still go and see the christmas showthough, it'll be great.... peace and goodwill to all men (and guitarists)
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2012 15:34:19 GMT
Ian's studious oblivion to the feelings and hopes of his co-workers/employees is a baffling constant...certainly flies in the face of everything 'band' evokes and falls more in the category of 'business'....but this isn't news and an objective look at all rock and roll 'bands' would surely result in and 80-90% business over camraderie/democracy ratio...just off the top of my head I would point at Zappa, The Ramones and the Stones as 'bands' where bizness came first and seething personal enimity reared it's ugly head.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 22, 2012 15:53:30 GMT
We've now got Martin's version of what was said and done, but as we all know there's two sides to every story. So, I for one will be keeping an open mind until I hear what Ian has to say on the subject.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 22, 2012 16:04:47 GMT
ooooooo, the handbags are really out now!!!!! Just hope it doesn't get nasty with each side getting bitter. As Bunkerfan says, there are two sides to a story. Mind you it could be an elaborate ruse to keep us fans on our toes but although I doubt it very much, I wouldn't put it past 'em.
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Post by snaffler on Jun 22, 2012 17:17:20 GMT
looking forward to seeing a band with clive, barrie, john and martin!!!!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2012 17:20:38 GMT
What?, Tull Alumni join the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers in the two drummer bin or they take turns cuz Ian said they were too old and sweaty for TAAB 2?
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Post by snaffler on Jun 22, 2012 17:39:17 GMT
What?, Tull Alumni join the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers in the two drummer bin or they take turns cuz Ian said they were too old and sweaty for TAAB 2? never mind the two drummers who's the f****g *bass player?!!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2012 17:52:56 GMT
Noyce has already hitched his wagon to team Barre and Barre himself mentions Pegg....which is realistic cuz Pegg played alongside him in Excalbur and cuz Pegg has seldom met a gig he didn't like...although he was reportedly whining a bit at the end of his Tull time.
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Post by snaffler on Jun 22, 2012 18:53:52 GMT
Noyce has already hitched his wagon to team Barre and Barre himself mentions Pegg....which is realistic cuz Pegg played alongside him in Excalbur and cuz Pegg has seldom met a gig he didn't like...although he was reportedly whining a bit at the end of his Tull time. right thats settled then! all we need now is for a time machine so we can pluck IA from circa mid seventies into 2012, but if he meets the IA from 2012 it will upset the space time continuum. maybe stephen hawking has some idea how to do it.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2012 19:02:47 GMT
Too late...Ian's ahead of you and everyone else, as usual...as TAAB 2 proves, the plucking and replacing on the space time continuum has been accomplished. Myabe Martin will end up with a powerhouse Tull big band: two bass players, two drummers and maybe countless other alum...Maart Allcock alone counts as about three musicians !
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Post by snaffler on Jun 22, 2012 19:10:10 GMT
Too late...Ian's ahead of you and everyone else, as usual...as TAAB 2 proves, the plucking and replacing on the space time continuum has been accomplished. Myabe Martin will end up with a powerhouse Tull big band: two bass players, two drummers and maybe countless other alum...Maart Allcock alone counts as about three musicians ! not so fast we need IAs voice from the seventies!!! ever heard of a voice being transported from the past and being implanted into a clapped out vocalist?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2012 19:50:40 GMT
Okay...so there's some bugs in the time machine...it doesn't bring the voice into the present....brainstorm: Martin waits awhile and hires Ryan to sing...by that time hardcore Ian apologists ( who? me?) have rationalized and gotten used to the whole Ryan as legit Tull voice delivery system and the big band has a vocalist.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 22, 2012 19:50:47 GMT
To add a little fuel to this debate, here's part of an Ian Anderson interview by Shawn Perry from Vintagerock.com. S P. Forty years ago it was drugs and other tragedies, now we’ve lost people like Davy Jones and Ronnie Montrose to more natural causes. Anyway, when I spoke with Martin Barre last December, I got the feeling he wasn’t too happy about you going out and doing Thick As A Brick, at least without him. Any thoughts on that? I A. Not really. Martin and I had a long talk last June about this year and various projects that we had in mind. He has a whole bunch of plans this year, different sorts of things he’s doing, some of which I have been urging him to do for quite a few years before he gets too old to tackle something that necessarily demands departures of working with other musicians and other musical alternatives to the repertoire that’s he familiar with playing all the time, so I think it’s a good time for him to be doing that sort of stuff. But I’m not aware that he’s not too happy.
Full interview. www.vintagerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1315:the-ian-anderson-interview-2012&catid=3:interviews&Itemid=4
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 22, 2012 20:23:15 GMT
There's a crummy, double negative sentence from a man who usually knows his way around the English language:' I am not aware that he not too happy!
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Post by snaffler on Jun 23, 2012 7:45:56 GMT
There's a crummy, double negative sentence from a man who usually knows his way around the English language:' I am not aware that he not too happy! martin might challenge him to a duel "pistols at dawn you cad!" but seriously folks this is going to rumble on even in the minds of us lot for ages. whats done is done i say. i am looking forward on monday to driving up north to the highlands and visiting some of the landscapes which inspired some of the most brilliant lyrics in rock music......whatever we think of IAs alleged behaviour his genius will always be evident. ayethankyou
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